boys are going stones at tanks and we'll never really know how many people are dead, they drop bombs on innocent girls while they sleep in their bed, israel is a terror state, the terrorists that terrorize, i'll testify my television televise, i'm telling lies, how many more resolutions have to be violated, how many more children have to be annihilated, this is not a war, it is systematic genocide, but whatever they try, palestine will never die,

'hello, i'm chris williamson and you're watching palestine declassified where we expose the israeli regime's global war against solidarity with the illegally occupied people of palestine. in today's show, we'll be focusing on the legacy of casim saleymani, five years on from his assassination by the united states. president donald trump, the warthorized the killing will assume office again on january the 20th. in our first report, the chief rapid chakra looks back. salmani's life: the five years since the assassination of haj qasim sulaimani, commander of iran's goods force have proven just how important he was. sulaimani was one of the key figures in the creation of the axes of resistance, a transnational alliance against zionism and us imperialism. his effectiveness led him to be known as the shadow commander amongst his enemies. yosi cohen, former director of israel's foreign intelligence.

agency mossad even said that sulaimani had personally tightened a nous around israel's neck, but who was sulaimani, and why was he considered a prime target for israel and the united states? sulaymani had humble beginnings, leaving school at the age of 13 and working in construction to help pay off his father's debts. he spent part of his late teenage years attending religious gatherings and listening to revolutionary sermons. in 1979, when he was in his early 20s, he joined the islamic revolutionary gods. sulaimani advanced rapidly through the ranks and during the iran iraq war, he helped to fight off saddam hussein's invasion, gaining a reputation for bravery. he continued to ascend the ranks after the war, becoming an irgc commander in kurman province, fighting against drug trafficking. by 1998, he had become the commander of the irgc's elite hoods force. in that role, which he's

occupied until his assassination on the 3rd of january 2020, sulaimani developed personal ties with resistance forces across west asia. in the july war against israel in 2006, sulaimani was stationed in lebanon and worked with hisballah to help remove the zionist invaders. it is no surprise that a former cia officer described sulaimani as the single most powerful operative in west asia. sulaimani also worked to fortify relations with the... resistance groups hamas and palestinian islamic jihad, and he was a key player in the creation of an extensive tunnel network used to smuggle weapons and supplies into the besieged strip. an official statement from hamas said that sulaimani played a major and critical role in supporting palestinian resistance at all levels. moreover, the head of palestinian islamic jihad ziyad nakhala stated that the us decision to kill sulaimani

was an indication of the major role he played in strengthening the resistance axes and the struggle for palestine. sulaimani was also one of the major figures in the war against isis, working in both iraq and syria to coordinate decisive military offensives against the sectarian takfiri group. the loss of qasim sulaymani and his unique ability to coordinate different resistance forces is now more keenly felt than ever, although his legacy continues. used to serve as a thorn in the side of the zionist aggressors. joining me in the studio, as usual, is our resident expert david miller, who's widely regarded as the uk's preeminent scholarly critic of israel. david's a senior research fellow at the center for islam and global affairs at istanbul zayim university, and he's a co-director of the lobbying watch dog spinwatch. our guest contributor today is a professor of english literature and orientalism at the university of teran, and he's an outstanding political analyst, professor.

say mohammed morandi, welcome to the show. david, i mean, we just heard in in the report there about casim salmani's role in defeating isis, didn't we? i mean, just elaborate a bit on that will you for us. well, i mean, given what's happened in recent weeks with the uh collapse of the government of bashar al-assad. it's being said that iran was playing a role in syria and indeed in other places, which was just about self-interest, and people talk about iranian colonialism, but look, what what simon did was he galvanized and in fact helped to create the axis of resistance, in in yemen, yes of course, but also in iraq, in lebanon. and in syria and to and allied that with the palestinian resistance and it's absolutely clear that that was an attempt to and was the main reason why the palestine resistance had the success that it has had, so the idea that somehow that this was - a problematic thing or wasn't significant is completely wrong,

and of course it was also significant uh player in the defeat of isis, the takfiri terrorist sectarian group and if it wasn't for solman. probably isis wouldn't have been defeated, his his role there was outstanding, right? indeed, well, professor morandi, i mean i report there gave a small insight into solomonni's life story, but but what do you think motivated him, and and just say a word to, will you, about solmani's world view? he was a very intelligent person, he came from a uh poor part of the country. "before the revolution, rural area areas were very backward, he had to do manual labor, but he was extremely right, and if anyone who spoke who speaks persian would listen to his

speeches, they would know how how well educated he is, and how how eloquent he is in speaking and he was a very brilliant commander, but he was very ideological, excuse me, but he was very ideological, ideologically bound to resistance from the very beginning, and you can see that in his speeches, but also in his writings and the defensive iran of course against saddam hussein's aggression was key to his evolution as a military commander, yeah, and after the war he was given a new job to build the courts forces and because of his very heartfelt relationship to the palestinian

people, he spent the rest of his life trying to strengthen the palestinian cause and creating... what is called the access of resistance? yeah, the united states of course, they in many ways helped create taxes of resistance by foolish policies, by destructive policies, by supporting isis, for example, the united states helped iraqies recognized the true nature of american foreign policy and the threat that isis was to their... uh to their country and to their existence, yes indeed, and of course the united states approach hasn't changed at all, has it in the intervening years, but professor marandi, i mean what was solomon's relationship with hispalah, because he was highly respected in lebanon and even supported the hisb in the

2006 july war against israel, didn't he? yes, he was actually in lebanon and he stayed in... on throughout the war, it was very dangerous for him because the israelis were bombing civilian targets as they always do, destroying southern bayrut, and back then ezbullah did not have the sort of underground tunnel mechanisms or underground tunnel networks that they have today, so he put his life at great risk, but he was there to coordinate support for hizbullah, and of course afterwards he... was key to helping them develop the tunnel networks that were used in the recent war, the reason why the israelis failed in the south to make any progress was because of the very sophisticated tunnel networks that exists across southern and

central lebanon. the only successes that the israeli regime had were in beirot through assassinations and of course the bombing of ordinary people and the bombing of refugees and cities across. but also because of the sophisticated defense network that was established, absolutely a very key key figure briefly um also played a key role in syria didn't he and they even personally briefed the russian president didn't he vladimir putin about how to intervene there, well yes i mean he's credited with bringing putin in and that's tremendous historical moment that happened there, but of course there also a story isn't which hasan nasara about how he hadmani come to him and say these corn rockets that

you've had from the russians, can we send them to gaza, and i said to him, we can't do that until we have asked president that because he gave them to us and he goten from the russians, so we agreed that the next person to see assad would ask him, and as it happened, i said was the person to see that, of course they must go to the brothers in gaza, so that really shows the the close. links between the elements of the axis of resistance and the fact that assad was a very significant supporter of the axis of resistance up until the end indeed and of course solomon's role should not be underestimated either of course but our next report now outlines why casim salmani was actually targeted by the united states. above all else it was rasim suleymani's support for the palestinian resistance that made him a prime target for the zionist regime. while us president donald trump ordered the fatal drone strike that killed sulaymani as he left baghdad airport, the operation

had been supported by israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. in fact, it was israeli intelligence that confirmed sulaymani's location, which was shared with us intelligence, but according to trump, netanyahu backed out of the murder plot at the last minute, and the night before it happened, i got a... that israel will not be participating in this attack. nobody's heard the story before. i'll never forget that bb netanyahu let us down. that was a very terrible thing. i will say that. despite backing out at the last minute, praised trump for carrying out the assassination. but why was immani such a threat to the zionist regime? a statement by. the late secretary general of hizbullah highlighted soleimani's commitment to the palestinian resistance. in

december 2020, nasuelo recounted a time when soleimani had requested that russian made cornet missiles which belong to hisbollah in south lebanon, be transferred to gaza instead. but sulaimani wasn't just responsible for sending cornet missiles to gaza. with sulaimani's coordination. iran also sent other missiles, weapons and ammunition to gaza by using its diplomatic relations with sudan, which produced many of the weapons locally. soleimani's support for palestine was recognized by leaders of the palestinian resistance. yahya sinwar, the late leader of hamas, said in 2017, sulaimani told us clearly, we place all our capabilities at your disposal in the battle for the defense of jerusalem. he. did not ask, set conditions or encourages to employ any specific type of resistance. let me tell you something, i sat

with the man when i visited tehran in 2012. i saw a man who loves palestine, loves jerusalem, and loves anything that could bolster the steadfastness of our people. soleimani's effectiveness at providing material support for the palestinian resistance is undeniable, and it was one of the greatest reasons that the us savage. murdered him on the 3rd of january 2020, but sulaimani's martur them has only immortalized his legacy, and his unwavering commitment to palestine will always be remembered. well, professor mirandi, solemani's role in supporting all palestinian resistance factions, surely negates the notion being pedaled in certain quarters, doesn't it, that iran has been simply persuming its own narrow interests. in palestine? i think by now most people should recognize

that iran has made enormous sacrifices for the palestinian cause. the reason why iran is so heavily sanctioned is because of palestine, yes the maximum pressure of sanctions imposed on iran, the sanctions that really began soon after the revolution, all of these are because of palestine. united states or the europeans may use excuse about the nuclear program or terrorism or human rights, but in reality it's all been about palestine, and at the same time iran has given. funding and support to the palestinian movements, whether in gaza, the west bank, whether in lebanon or in syria or in jordan as well, so it has come to, it has been a great cost to iran, but this is a principle that the palestinian people should cannot be treated as subhuman animals in their own

land by a racist and ethno supramicist. and so based upon this principle, the iranians have set a foreign policy that has always been to help enable the palestinian people and the people of the region surrounding palestine, yes indeed, i mean sets the standard really that the world ought to follow, professor mirandi, but david, i mean what do you make of this contention then that you iran is is a sectarian player in in palestine, i mean the light of experience suggests. such assertions are for the birds? well, it's completely absurd, but this is a view which has been pedaled, it's been pedaled in in syria, by by the supporters of the coup, the cia backed coup, but you know it's quite clear that you that iran being largely shia has, yes it's supported shia militia, but it's also of course supported every single palestinian fraction who are overwhelmingly sunny, it supported the palestinian

islamic jahad who are sunny, it supported hamas who are sunny, and indeed it's even supported secular and leftists groups, marxist groups, if you like, the democratic front for liberation of palestine, popular front for liberation of palestine, also supported indiscriminatly by by iran, because iran believes in the palestinian cause, if it was sectarian, it would only supply weapons to shia groups, of course on the other side that's not the case, on the other side there is very very great sectarianism amongst the al-qaeda produces, nuz front, sham, all these uh isis in suits factions, which are of course tacferian sectarian and deeply, deeply anti-sia, and that of course is the problem which we faced in syria and a problem which iran has set its face against and and actually tried to uh to stop and serving the interests of the of the greater israel project and and and the us empire, that's correct, yeah, yeah, indeed, well professor morandi, i mean we know that

donald trump originally had no idea who kassim even was and yet and... he killed him on israel's behalf, i mean that doesn't seem to board well does it for his forth coming second term, particularly as he's appointed a large number of stridents to key positions in his new administration. yes, his ignorance, i think is what led him to be fooled by netanyahu and people in his own administration like john bolton and pompeo. uh, netanyahu, as your report points out, encouraged him to carry out the assassination, him and abu mahdis, the iraqi was leading the resistance in iraq against isis, and their their and a group of six young men who were with them, he he pushed for this, he said it will be a part of it, but netanyahu pulled out

at the last moment, and basically he wanted trump to take all the blame for it, which is... i think shows the nature of netanyahu himself and then of course bolton and pompeo are deep state actors in the united states linked to these very dangerous and powerful people, so trump out of his ignorance and foolishness he ordered the murder, but a very interesting thing that i think your viewers viewers should know is that the reason why general sulaimani. was in iraq and he was at the iraqi international airport move going into baghdad was because he was supposed to meet the iraqi prime minister, yeah, and the then prime minister said later after he was martered that general sulaimani was coming to see me at 8 in the morning to discuss a letter from saudi arabia to defuse the tensions between iran and saudi arabia

and to deescalate and we were going to sit together to find a towards uh, so what the united states and israelis basically did was they murdered him in order, in my opinion to prevent that meeting from taking place, to prevent iran and saudi arabia moving closer to one another, because it is in the interest of the united states and the empire to divide and rule, especially as western fortunes declined as they they the... power, their relative power decreases, they need divide and rule as a policy more than ever before, and the then prime minister himself told me that uh, i was planning to meet him hours after he was murdered, sure, yeah, i mean the evidence is is absolutely overwhelming, professor morandi, but david, i mean, we know that donald trump's heavily influenced by the uh zionist lobby, i mean,

how do you think that's likely to affect the pro-palestine resistance in in west uh asia during his second term? well, he is very heavily affected by the lobby, but he also uh appears to say things which seem to be... um completely at odds and variance with reality, so about syria, for example, he said, oh yes, this is something for the syrians to sort out, nothing to do with us, and of course, as everybody knows, the cia was heavily involved through turkey as well as with the israelis and indeed through the kurds in northeast syria where they occupy the oil rich fields of syria, so the the idea that actually america was isolationist, was taking a... back seat is completely bogus and of course that's the difficulty is that whether he knows or not that the cia was was deeply involved probably he does he he's he's perfectly

content to come out with all this stuff which is which is simply rid well i mean it's obviously not in office yet is he so let's see how he reacts in his second term actually does begin on january the 20th professor morandi though finally and briefly because we're nearly out of time what was the reaction like in west asia to salimani's martim i mean that viewpoints often missing in the... well western media was saying how despised he was and hated by iraqis and iranians immediately after he was martered and then we had the funerals in it began in baddad where you had massive crowds that carried his body all the way to the holy cities of najaf and karbala where there were huge crowds there then he was moved to iran and his body was... from city to city and you had millions of people on the streets and it the end he was it was the the prayers in tehran that were held where millions of people came to the streets to to

to to to pray for him and western media again as usual they had they they they had to at least acknowledge some of this reality yeah not all of it but "it was clear clear that iraqis considered him to be a hero, iranians considered him to be a hero, and and syrians and lebanese consider him and palestinians consider him to be a hero, and we are seeing how alqida today is being promoted by the west, but i think time will tell their true role for the syrian people, absolutely, absolutely, certainly kasim salmani was the embodiment really of of of a national hero and and and remain so today, but i'm..." that's all we've got time for today, so thanks for watching and thank you to our guest professor mirandi and of course our residence expert professor david miller. remember you can follow the show on facebook, twitter and telegram where we

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efforts to reach a better and superior society for our people. while appartite racism, fascism and imperialism exists together with zionism, there will be no possibility of processing and moving on to a new moment. it must change, it must improve itself, it must correct itself and reach new levels, that is the dream of humanity, that is the dream that we have. در زمان امیرالمؤمنین اعلیترین رهبری بود که امروز رهبر ما تمسک به افتخارش به اون راه اونه به راه امیرلمؤمنین اما.

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hello and welcome to unscripted, a brand new program where we get in depth with high ranking officials and personalities. in today's program, i have interviewed muhammad, he's a member of the dancer movement political bureau. in the name of god, the most gracious, the most merciful. themen has been in the news not only for its steadfast support for palestinians, but even more for attacking the israeli regime. yemen has been. able to develop its missile and air capabilities in order to confront the aggression on yemen carried out by america, britain, saudi arabia and the united arab emirates. do you then still think that your strategy, militarily speaking, is a successful one? when calculating the losses between yemen and the zionist entity and its allies, we find that the losses of america, britain and the zionist entity are much greater. do join us in unscripted.

هم ظنوا ان اغتيال المهندس في العراق وقاسم سليماني من ايران انهم سيضعفون حركه المقاومه الذين يسيرون على خط الحاس. قاسم سليماني اليوم هم كثر وفي وسعه جغرافيه كبيره شهيد قاسم سليماني اسلامي اصبحت له مكانه كبيره في قلوب المجاهدين في كل محور المقاومه كما كان دائما يحدد انا بالنسبه لي القدس هي هي